Collaboration & Web 2.0

Girls Who Code has launched its Girls Who Code Loop app, available on iOS and Android for free. The platform serves as a community forum for questions and announcements on coding, college, jobs and internships.

Google has changed the name of its popular service Google Apps for Education to G Suite for Education. With this change comes several new features that have been added to some of the apps included in G Suite. These features use “machine intelligence” to facilitate and add more functionalities to Google Apps.

The online tutoring services market in the United States is expected to grow at a compound annual growth rate of 6.15 percent between 2016 and 2020, according to a recent report by market research firm Technavio.

Natalie Hampton, a 16-year-old from Sherman Oaks, CA, has created “Sit With Us,” a free mobile app that allows students to become “ambassadors” and privately invite other kids to join them in the cafeteria or lunchroom.

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Institutions are starting to apply data-intensive strategies in almost every facet of their work. Data analytics and other advanced IT tools give education IT professionals powerful new ways to support student achievement and engagement. Video is playing a greater role in instruction, and large datasets have become a staple. The more a institutions capitalizes on data, the greater the demand this data usage places on its IT infrastructure.
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